On 6/22/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
The missing piece of data is: what proportion of anonymous editors are good contributors? If it's very small, then it's a non-issue.
I have a theory that for any change made by an anon editor:
- if it's a deletion, it's probably vandalism - if it's the addition of more than a sentence, it will probably be unsourced and get reverted - if it's only a net change of plus or minus 5 characters, it's probably a useful copy-edit
Anon make a lot of typo corrections, but are rarely bold enough to fix major problems in articles.
Steve